The Environmental and Conservation Sciences Graduate Program is an interdisciplinary program which builds on established research strengths across several colleges. ECS provides a collaborative framework to integrate research and education across disciplines to resolve complex environmental issues facing North Dakota and our nation in the new century.

The ECS graduate program comprises an integrative curriculum that emphasizes the common ground shared by all sciences. There are two tracks; Conservation Biology and Environmental Sciences.

One cornerstone of this curriculum will be a regular "outreach" seminar series that will provide opportunity for students to interact with professionals "in the trenches." Local professionals as well as nationally recognized experts will provide seminars, workshops and mini-courses to ECS students. Some workshops will be offered via video-conference networks to increase opportunities for off-campus students. This series will help foster collaborations between NDSU and the regional community.